Pass the Piece poetry: Bigger on the Inside and A Word is A Doorway
A wardrobe is a snowy kingdom / And a police box is a time machine. Plus a poem by Amy Scott Robinson.
Earlier this year, I took part in the UK Moot creative community’s Pass the Piece, where participants created a piece of art (whether visual art or poetry or prose or music…) to pass it on for someone else to respond to (as well as receiving someone else’s piece for our own creative response).
I came up with a poem that riffs on the title of this newsletter and my love of Narnia and Doctor Who, which the wonderfully-talented author and storyteller Amy Scott Robinson wrote a response to. Here are both poems – I hope you enjoy them, and thanks to Amy for permission to share hers publicly here!
Pass the Piece
Bigger on the Inside
A wardrobe is a snowy kingdom
And a police box is a time machine
A book is an adventure in time and space
A journey to other realms and minds
A story is a cosmos incognito
A view of the universe shared
A word is an open doorway
To wonders and worlds unknown
A poem is thing with dimensions
Hidden and deep beyond
A metaphor is a myth in miniature
An explosion of meaning that blooms
A person is a story that’s living
Containing thoughts and dreams immense
A kindness is an incarnation
Of the love that moves sun and stars
A world is a signpost
To things unseen
A prayer a hinge
On which history turns
A loaf of bread is the body
Broken so we might be unbroken
A cup of wine is the blood is the life
Is the love at the heart of the universe.
by Caleb Woodbridge
A word is a doorway (and a prayer is a hinge)
And he replied, ‘Join me
in this metaphor. It’s a myth in miniature,
a parable’s seed,’
and he pointed to the plate on the table.
Looking, she saw with his eyes:
starving wanderers
manna from heaven
five thousand hungry children
twelve baskets left over
a broken body
two at Emmaus starting to their feet.
‘Sir,’ she said, ‘even the dogs will eat
the crumbs that the children brush off.’
She looked into the eyes of the word,
and he, with the world in his sights
smiled back and opened the door.
by Amy Scott Robinson
(www.amyscottrobinson.com)
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